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Friday, October 14, 2011

The Ancestors' Geneameme

Many genealogists took up my challenge in the recent Tech Savvy Genealogists Meme so I thought I'd put together another Geneameme (new term just coined). Once again this is the result of a quick personal brainstorm, I have tried to make the statements generic so that the meme has international relevance.

It would be appreciated if genealogists would let the meme run its course before copying and republishing it with alterations and amendments.

The Ancestors' Geneameme

The list should be annotated in the following manner:Things you have already done or found: bold face typeThings you would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional)Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain typeYou are encouraged to add extra comments in brackets after each item

Which of these apply to you?

Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents

Can name over 50 direct ancestors

Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents

Have an ancestor who was married more than three times

Have an ancestor who was a bigamist

Met all four of my grandparents

Met one or more of my great-grandparents

Named a child after an ancestor

Bear an ancestor's given name/s

Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland

Have an ancestor from Asia

Have an ancestor from Continental Europe

Have an ancestor from Africa

Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer

Have an ancestor who had large land holdings

Have an ancestor who was a holy man - minister, priest, rabbi

Have an ancestor who was a midwife

Have an ancestor who was an author

Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones

Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng

Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X

Have an ancestor with a forename beginnining with Z

Have an ancestor born on 25th December

Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day

Have blue blood in your family lines

Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth

Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth

Can trace a direct family line back to the eighteenth century

Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier

Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents

Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X

Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university

Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence

Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime

Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine (Tell us where)

Have published a family history online or in print (Details please)

Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries

Still have an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family

My post is at http://genealogymatters2me.blogspot.com/2011/10/ancestors-geneameme.htmlSeems that the copied formatting has played up with my post and it's rather messy. Will fix if I have time.Might complete one now for my husband's side of the family.

Thanks, everyone, for your participation.Carole - never too late to the party.Helen - Interpret Holy Man however you will - your guy sound pretty holy to me.Geolover - thrilled I have encouraged you to get blogging

I am finally completing my version of this. It was interesting and caused me to complete a few things that I've been putting off. Thanks for the helpful activity.http://acoupleofwhiles.blogspot.com/2011/10/ancestors-geneameme.html